
Science & Technology


Gazing at your smartphone in dark may cause ‘blindness’
LONDON (TIP): Using your device just before sleep may lead to a condition called transient smartphone blindness, say doctors who reported a case of two women in the UK suffering from temporary vision impairment in […]


Indian-Origin MIT Researcher Develops Phone-Based Eye-Tracking System
BOSTON (TIP): Researchers led by an Indian-origin scientist have developed a software that can turn any smartphone into an eye-tracking device, a discovery that can help in psychological experiments and marketing research. In addition to […]


Robots to swim in Bay of Bengal for monsoon study
NEW DELHI (TIP): To better understand and predict South Asia’s seasonal monsoon, scientists are getting ready to release robots in the Bay of Bengal in a study of how ocean conditions might affect rainfall patterns. […]

Scientists design protein to modify memory
NEW YORK: Scientists have developed a new tool to modify brain activity and memory in targeted ways, without the help of any drugs or chemicals. The new tool is a protein that can be encoded […]

WHATSAPP BETA GETS GIFS SUPPORT AND HINTS AT VIDEO CALLING
WhatsApp beta users on iOS have started receiving an update that lets them share auto playing GIFs. After the recent update to emojis, the messaging is app seems to have been keeping a keen eye on […]

NEW SOFTWARE TURNS WEBCAMS INTO EYE-TRACKERS
WASHINGTON (TIP): Scientists have developed a software that turns computer webcams into eye-trackers, an advance that may help developers optimize content and make websites more user-friendly. The software, called WebGazer.js , can infer where on […]




NEW METHOD TO CREATE 3D NANOPARTICLES FROM DNA
BOSTON (TIP): Scientists have developed an algorithm that uses DNA strands to automatically build 3D nanoparticles, which may be used in a range of applications such as vaccines, gene editing tools and memory storage. Researchers […]



LONG-TERM USE OF ANTIBIOTICS COULD DISRUPT BRAIN FUNCTION
Treatments involving long-term use of antibiotics have the potential to disrupt brain functions, suggests a new research which found that healthy gut bacteria is crucial to keeping the mind sharp. A special kind of immune […]

New form of light discovered
LONDON: In a breakthrough, scientists have discovered a new form of light, which will impact our understanding of the fundamental nature of light. One of the measurable characteristics of a beam of light is known […]


INSPIRED BY SPIDER WEBS, SCIENTISTS CREATE FIBER THAT EXPAND LIKE SOLID AND COMPRESS LIKE LIQUID
LONDON (TIP): Inspired by the ‘liquid wire’ technique in spider webs, scientists have created novel composite fibres which extend like a solid and compress like a liquid. Pulling on a sticky thread in a spider’s […]

World’s largest Cargo aircraft Antonov AN -225 Mriya lands at Hyderabad
World’s largest cargo aircraft, Antonov AN -225 Mriya — or the Dream, made its first landing in India at the Rajiv Gandhi International Airport in Hyderabad on Friday, May 13, 2016 Photo / SnapsIndia


EINSTEIN’S RELATIVITY THEORY STILL VALID: STUDY
TOKYO (TIP): After analyzing a 3D map of 3,000 galaxies that are 13 billion light years from Earth, an international team led by Japanese researchers has found that theoretical physicist Albert Einstein’s general theory of […]

Stain on your shirt? Technology launched to make it clean itself
AHMEDABAD (TIP): Getting rid of stubborn stains from clothes will no more be a herculean task. The Facilitation Centre for Industrial Plasma Technologies (FCIPT), a division of Institute for Plasma Research (IPR) in Gandhinagar, has […]

